Pascal Brice, president of the Federation of Solidarity Actors, was invited on Monday to franceinfo.
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Guest on franceinfo Monday May 6, Pascal Brice, president of the Federation of Solidarity Actors, denounced the “lures” and the “gadgets” of the government while the Minister Delegate in charge of Housing, Guillaume Kasbarian, said he “open” Sunday on France Inter with the idea of changing the law to “to strenghten” the possibilities of evicting families of delinquent children from social housing.
“Communication is fine! If the ministers and the government are there to amuse the gallery and make publicity, let us be told, but it’s just unbearable”, denounced Pascal Brice. He deplores the “a way of throwing lures everywhere to occupy the attention of public opinion on things that are real, but not to attack the essential”, he explained. 2,500,000 people are waiting for social housing in France. A “major crisis in social housing which is a social bomb in the country”, he assures.
“A real risk that we kill the SRU law”
The Minister of Housing presented on Friday a “bill relating to the development of the supply of affordable housing”. The text will first be examined in the Senate in mid-June, before going to the Assembly at the start of the next school year. “There is a real risk that we will kill the SRU law”, fears Pascal Brice. He wants a strengthening of sanctions against mayors who do not apply the Solidarity and Urban Renewal law which imposes, in theory, 20 or 25% of social housing in municipalities.
Pascal Brice does not understand that the government “come with gadgets” and does not sanction mayors who do not want “precarious” and of “poor” in their community. “I ask the government and the Minister of Housing to stop the lures, and also to stop the stigmatization.” He calls for “a serious policy on the part of elected government officials to get out of this major social housing crisis.”
“All of this is serious because we are in a state of societal decay, terrible from every point of view. And here we have a housing minister, a government that spends its time throwing gadgets at us,” he lamented.
